John has shared that his many romantic misadventures left him disgusted with himself. He writes in his autobiography "Me," per the Daily Mail, "I'd see someone I liked the look of ... I'd buy them the watch and the shirt and the cars, but eventually ... they'd end up resenting it, I'd end up getting bored with them ... I'd get someone else to get rid of them for me and start again. It was absolutely dreadful behaviour."
John goes on to confess that, beneath it all, he was "insecure and body-conscious and self-loathing." After a recording session one day, tormented by these thoughts, he took twelve valium tablets and retired to bed. "I can't remember what exactly prompted me to do that," he confesses, "although it was probably some catastrophic love affair gone wrong."
It seems that one such disastrous relationship did indeed inspire "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." In 1970, per American Songwriter, John had been weeks away from marrying Linda Woodrow, his partner and secretary at the time. Woodrow was also living with the "Tiny Dancer" crooner and Taupin at the time, and combined with his doubts about the upcoming wedding, it all made for a situation fraught with difficulties. John reportedly terminated the engagement in the early hours of one drunken morning, just another calamity in a life that has been, like so many others, both blessed and cursed by fame.
ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qL7Up56eZpOkunCFj3FrbWxfqbWmecSlq6imXZ%2B8qbqMrKann12ovK6xzqecZquRq7KlecyyZKWhlpp6tbvNop6hrF2drrR5wGakrpuYYrGivsqeqWallZa7qrrGZquhmZ5ixKZ506Gmrp%2BYqXw%3D